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We all know about Debian, Fedora and Arch but what about the lesser known ones that are built from the ground up?

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[โ€“] frankenswine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

why? what does it do to faint hearts?

[โ€“] axx@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Makes them read Scheme.

But seriously, it's a scheme-based approach to a fully free declarative OS, similar to NixOS (from which it was forked ages ago. They are doing very interesting work and some HPC and scientific folks are taking notice.